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  • Columns

    May 9, 2012

    Broadway Gossip About Ricky Martin, Newsies, and Jekyll & Hyde!

    Once again, feel-good battles artsinessfor the Antoinettes

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Broadway Gossip About Ricky Martin, Newsies, and Jekyll & Hyde!

    This week's column is a breathless triumph that sums up the Broadway season by interviewing various notables at a Tony nominees meet-and-greet where they grabbed at plaques and press ops. You'll learn: *What Gladys Knight has to do with the upcoming reimagining of Jekyll & Hyde *What Bonnie & Cly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Sade Pendavis, RIP

    One of the things I loved about Sade Pendavis is that, even though I'd written about her more than once, she had no idea who I was and would always greet me with "What was the name again?" Normally that kind of thing would make me crazy, but since so many downtown performers delightfully crawl so f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    100 & Single: Rihanna's Post-Millennial Strategy For Setting Chart Records

    ​Pop-chart record-keeping can be as contentious as baseball's, and we've got quite the steroids-style asterisk forming atop Billboard's Hot 100. On the most recent chart, the most pervasive radio star of the last half-decade brushed past a couple of legends into the hall of fame. And like Barr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    American Idol: It's Finally Over!

    Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Live: The Dismemberment Plan Do The Standing Still (And Flail Around A Lot) At Webster Hall

    Travis Morrison, in a rare break from his stand-up-comedy routine. Pics by Jena Cumbo.​The Dismemberment Plan Webster Hall Saturday, January 29 Better Than: Back when they played shows with Death Cab for Cutie as the "Death and Dismemberment" tour. Travis Morrison, frontman for freshly reun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    84th Thanksgiving Day Parade Will Be As Cheesy As Usual

    ​Charlie Brown will have a few new friends to hang out with as he floats down Sixth Avenue this Thanksgiving. Macy's has announced the lineup for this year's parade, which will include performances by Kanye West, Jessica Simpson, and Gladys Knight, helium-filled versions of Po from Kung-Fu Pan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    American Idol Season 9, Idol Gives Back: Shut The Fuck Up, Alicia Keys

    I don't want to be too cynical about "Idol Gives Back", the big annual charity-drive American Idol episode, because God knows the thing does more good with ten minutes of on-air banalities than I will ever do with anything in my life. But every year now, the thing is just sitting in the middle of ... More >>

  • Music

    March 9, 2010

    Bob Blank's Gold Standard

    The NYC producer ruled even those dance floors he never ventured onto himself

  • Film

    September 8, 2009

    The Title Pretty Much Says It: I Can Do Bad All by Myself

    The NYC producer ruled even those dance floors he never ventured onto himself

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    From the Voice Archives: Vince Aletti Backstage with the Jackson Five in 1975

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Vince Aletti, backstage at Radio City Music Hall with a 16-year-old MJ in 1975. In Love With the Jackson Five 'I'm more concerned that I didn't get their autographs than that I can't read any of my notes.' By Vince Aletti Mon. Feb. 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2008

    The American Idol Season Finale Running Diary: David Archuleta Totally Loses

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Vince Aletti, backstage at Radio City Music Hall with a 16-year-old MJ in 1975. In Love With the Jackson Five 'I'm more concerned that I didn't get their autographs than that I can't read any of my notes.' By Vince Aletti Mon. Feb. 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2007

    The BET Awards: A Running Diary

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Vince Aletti, backstage at Radio City Music Hall with a 16-year-old MJ in 1975. In Love With the Jackson Five 'I'm more concerned that I didn't get their autographs than that I can't read any of my notes.' By Vince Aletti Mon. Feb. 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2007

    The American Idol Finale: A Running Diary

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Vince Aletti, backstage at Radio City Music Hall with a 16-year-old MJ in 1975. In Love With the Jackson Five 'I'm more concerned that I didn't get their autographs than that I can't read any of my notes.' By Vince Aletti Mon. Feb. 1 ... More >>

  • Music

    February 20, 2007

    Rhodes Scholars

    Archaic keyboard yields new innovations and innervisions

  • Music

    March 7, 2006

    A Miniature Cuba

    Cape Verdean Lura looks homeward and goes global

  • News

    February 14, 2006

    Jerry's City of Ghosts

    Fighting to hold on to a home—and to history

  • Music

    July 5, 2005

    Power of Love

    Memorial service for Luther Vandross brings out the star wattage and Holy Ghost power

  • Music

    May 10, 2005

    Once a Badass

    Barroom gal's enticing shine transcends limited pub image

  • News

    August 31, 2004

    The Resurrection and the Light

    Ray Charles compels 12 disciples to tell us just exactly who they are

  • Music

    August 31, 2004

    Inter-Century Freundschaft

    Where the fuck is for example the Z100, gangsta-rock, and Merina-Senegalese fusion?

  • Music

    December 30, 2003

    Singing School

    Serious musician demonstrates the virtues of hard work to the Save the Music foundation

  • News

    September 4, 2001

    Mr. Brooklyn

    One Guy Tries Harder for Brooklyn Borough President

  • Music

    July 10, 2001

    Minnie the Moocher's Revenge

    Sing Along With the JVC All-Stars

  • Music

    June 5, 2001

    Listings

    Sing Along With the JVC All-Stars

  • NYC Life

    May 29, 2001

    Jazz

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

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    May 15, 2001

    Love Wars Resurrection

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

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    September 21, 1999

    'Alternative ' Soul: Progress in Design?

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

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    September 7, 1999

    As Not Seen on TV!

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

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    May 18, 1999

    My High Guy

    In Search of a Cool-Blue Note

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    October 13, 1998

    Soho Resurgent

    Stores and rumors of stores

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    March 17, 1998

    Queen of Pop

    Stores and rumors of stores

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